On -10.01.-28163 20:59, Rob wrote: > What I mean is that for building packages they need not only building > tools but also -dev packages for many libraries that are going to be > used by the packages being built. There is a long list of packages that > one is supposed to install before even attempting to build a single > package from source, and then the particular package adds more requirements. > This timepps.h file is just one tiny little file between many other > .h .a and .so files.
Ah, I see. So there actually are *three* areas of "installed software" on a build system that need to be properly set up: The stuff that makes the build machine itself (architecture A) run, the packages that you want it to produce (for architecture B), and the source/devel packages that those latter need only *during compilation*. FWIW, you might find this open Debian bug interesting: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=691672 It does not only state the problem, but also lists the proper technical term (Build-Depend) and an e-mail address to (supposedly) poke the actual package maintainers through. (And IIRC Debian is the upstream for a fair *lot* of distribs.) But, for sake of completeness: While the Build-Depend needs to point to whichever package contains timepps.h, the question of whether that file *belongs* there is, I gather, rather irrelevant for ntp package brewmasters. Regards, J. Bern -- *NEU* - NEC IT-Infrastruktur-Produkte im <http://www.linworks-shop.de/>: Server--Storage--Virtualisierung--Management SW--Passion for Performance Jochen Bern, Systemingenieur --- LINworks GmbH <http://www.LINworks.de/> Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt | Robert-Koch-Str. 9, 64331 Weiterstadt PGP (1024D/4096g) FP = D18B 41B1 16C0 11BA 7F8C DCF7 E1D5 FAF4 444E 1C27 Tel. +49 6151 9067-231, Zentr. -0, Fax -299 - Amtsg. Darmstadt HRB 85202 Unternehmenssitz Weiterstadt, Geschäftsführer Metin Dogan, Oliver Michel _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
